Transcranial electrical brain stimulation modulates neuronal tuning curves in perception of numerosity and duration

NeuroImage

Volumn 102, Issue P2, 2014, Pages 451-457

  Javadi, Amir Homayoun ^a   Brunec, Iva K ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^b   Penny, Will D ^a   Spiers, Hugo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Duration; Magnitude judgement; Neuronal tuning curve; Numerosity; Receptive field; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMEROSITY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TUNING CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PARIETAL LOBE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906483164     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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